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TIL about Mark Twain’s proposed Philippines flag during U.S. territorial expansion: an altered U.S. Flag with black stripes instead of white and skull and crossbones instead of stars.

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BK4y TIL Male Victims of Domestic Violence who call law enforcement for help are statistically more likely to be arrested themselves than their female partner- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH [PDF]
LQr8d TIL: An Wang was an immigrant who coinvented "write-after-read" which made magnetic core memory possible in computing while working at Harvard. However, Harvard cut computer research in 1951 so he started a business. He said, "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius"
Lanm TIL about the possibility of “Hypertumors”, when cancer tumor gets so big it itself gets cancer
lw9A TIL Poverty Kills More People Every Year Than Either Of the Top Killers – Heart Disease or Cancer
MeNn0 TIL cheetahs are so genetically similar to one another that their organs can be freely transplanted between any members of their species without the presence of immunosuppression.